Moafi’s Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi had a contentious relationship with Wyle’s Dr. Robby throughout season 2 of the HBO Max series.

The Pitt star Sepideh Moafi reacts to Noah Wyle ‘beef’ speculation

Moafi's Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi had a contentious relationship with Wyle's Dr. Robby throughout season 2 of the HBO Max series.

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- Sepideh Moafi addresses online speculation of an offscreen "beef" between her and *The Pitt* costar Noah Wyle.

- Fans speculated that the heated tension between Moafi's Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi and Wyle's Dr. Robby during season 2 was a form of "retribution" for their supposed offscreen rift.

- "We're really great colleagues. Noah and I have always had a great working relationship," she told *Variety* in a recent interview.

Sepideh Moafi has no fuel to add to the online speculation of an offscreen "beef" between her and *The Pitt** *costar Noah Wyle.

"That's completely false that there's a personal sort of beef or rivalry between us, at least not that I'm aware of," Moafi told *Variety** *in an interview published Wednesday about unsubstantiated claims that she and Wyle had been entangled in a behind-the-scenes feud. Their characters on the HBO medical drama, Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (Moafi) and Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch (Wyle), had a tension-filled dynamic throughout season 2.

"You can check with Noah, but I don't know about this," Moafi said.

Dr. Al-Hashimi made her debut in season 2 as an attending who arrives at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center from the VA Hospital, where she previously worked with Dr. Mel King (Taylor Dearden) and Dr. Samira Mohan (Supriya Ganesh). She and Robby bump heads throughout her first day on the job, especially after Robby discovers that she has a condition that causes her to have brief seizures.

Sepideh Moafi as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi on 'The Pitt'.

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In the season finale, the physicians fight over how Dr. Al-Hashimi's condition affects her ability to lead the emergency room, and it serves as another reason Robby feels he can't leave the ED for his motorcycle "spirit quest," as Dr. Abbott (Shawn Hatosy) not-so-affectionately refers to it.

Moafi said that the story was one she had to "fight" for.

"People with disabilities, people with health conditions, are not disposable, and let's just be clear about that," she told *Variety*. "They are not f---ing disposable, and the idea of you did this, and so now you're gone is outrageous and cruel."

Fans speculated that Dr. Al-Hashimi's arc during the season was a form of "retribution" for the supposed offscreen rift between Moafi and Wyle.

"Absolutely not," the *Generation Q: The L Word *alum said. "I do not have that power. We're really great colleagues. Noah and I have always had a great working relationship, which is why it actually felt safe to do the darker, dirtier work in episode 15, particularly because, between setups, we were shooting the s--- and laughing."

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Rumors shut down, Moafi is more interested in looking to the future, specifically her return for season 3 and what it will entail for her character.

"At the moment, I am [returning]. I'm not sure to what capacity," she admitted, laughing. "I'm positive, I think? Nothing is clear to me as to what's happening with the story, how many episodes, all that, but I am coming back."

In an interview with ** following the season 2 finale in April, creator R. Scott Gemmill shared that there was no official synopsis for *The Pitt* season 3 at the time, but he knew that the installment will be about Robby trying to pull himself out of the darkness.

"I think the season 3 mantra is 'Physician, heal thyself.' I'm hoping that Robby is smart enough and courageous enough to take the advice that he's always giving to others," Gemmill added.

Sepideh Moafi as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi on 'The Pitt'.

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Gemmill also teased "more story to be told" regarding Dr. Al-Hashimi's medical condition, place in the ED, and rocky relationship with Robby. He said that what interested him about the plotline is "what happens when you're faced with an affliction that may cause you to lose the one thing and prevent you from doing the one thing that you really have spent your whole life working towards, and what does that mean and how does that affect your identity?"

After introducing a storyline focused on ICE in season 2, Gemmill said the creative team will continue incorporating real-world events and reflecting changes in U.S. healthcare policy.

"There's a lot of changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and those are going to have real repercussions on the emergency department and everyone who works there and uses it," he said. "We're going to explore that this year, for sure."

As for the returning cast, in addition to Wyle and Moafi, Gemmill told *TVLine* that he sees Patrick Ball's Dr. Frank Langdon and Dearden's Mel returning for season 3 along with main cast members Isa Briones (Dr. Trinity Santos), Fiona Dourif (Dr. Cassie McKay), and Gerran Howell (Dr. Dennis Whitaker).

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Additionally, Gemmill said Laëtitia Hollard will return as Emma, the fresh-faced nurse who chose one hell of a day to start in the ER, and that Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez) will explore emergency psychiatry, which was teased in the season 2 finale.

Joining the main cast, meanwhile, is Ayesha Harris, whose no-nonsense Dr. Parker Ellis we've seen as part of the ED's night shift, a.k.a. "the Nightcrawlers."

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